The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1887-04-07


whom think that bribery is a sin when
ever it is found out. There came to
the Sentte Chamber one day few
years ago man whom nobody there,
except the Senator from his own State
knew. Yet only twelve wears before
he had been member Of the Senate,
a Governor Of Missouri, and was the
candidate FIR Vice President with
Horace Greeley. And when he went
out of the Chamber. Gratz Brown said
to friend: TN their time passes like
tightening fash"
A gentleman recently said in Iowa
that one day, having some business
with citizen Of that State, he found
him in corn field with his coat off
hard at work, and as he talked with
this farmer he could hardly believe
that the man had sat in the United
States Senate, and was Of importance
enough to be transferred to a seat in
President Gariield's Cabinet. That
man was Senator Kirkwood, and he
was a great person with Republicans
in Iowa In the old days. We saw
recently pale faced man, who
showed great strength of character in
the lines Of his face, moving slowly
down Broadway on crusches. Nobody
knew him yet he had been Senator
only few years before and was thought
one Of the ablest lawyers in that body
He was Senator Wright Of Iowa. A
man Of the type of the Western circuit
rider Of twenty years ago has been sit
ting on the bench Of one of the courts
in Washington for some years. You
will see him sDmetimes on The avenue
strollng slowly along. The great
,hrong # politicians pass him by, and
not one IN "A hundred knows who he is.
Yet he was "a Republican Senator Of
influence during part Of Grants Ad
n,inlstration, and once controlled the
great patronage Of the Interior De-
paItm.nt His name j. James Harlan,
and We have heard some If he younger
generation of politicians ask who he
was aud what he had been.
During the war and fura few years
succeeding there was no brighter
name in the Republican galaxy than
that OF John A. Bingham, and yet tive
or three years ago the Chairman of one
Of the House committees confessed
that he had never heard Of hm, or, if
he had, had forgotten it. When Bing-
ham returned from Japan and went to
Washington he seemed more of a
stranger, 81 he asserted, than when he
first came TO his seat. And yet we
we'll remember this mans splendid
eloquence in behalf Of Republican
measures, and he was acknowledged
one of the half dozen best orators in
the House. On has return from Japan
he went back 70 the business which he
had given up twenty-five yeurs before
to enter political life; he prscticed law
in a small way.
In the palmy days of the Republican
party, there was no more vigorous,
energetic leader than Samuel Shella.
barger, a member Of Congress from
Ohio. He was acute, aggressive and
AN intense partisan. Shellabarger was
one Of the chiefs os the House. You
will see now an energetic old man,
with long white tuft ON his chin, skin
as ssllow AS Turks. shoulders some
what bent, practicing law before the
courts aud departments Of Washing
ton. Politicians have forgotren him
Mr.. Shellabarger has forgotten and re-
nounced politics and politicians for
ever
When Gen. Garfield began his Ad-
ministration there used to appear in
the departments man who always had
the appearance Of sinking in and
sinking out. He moved about with a
shutting gait His head was bowed
and hls eyes were on the sidewalk. He
came and went from an inconspicious
office on New York avenue, and his
visitors there were infrequent. From
tho Window of his office he could look
out upon the building where but few
years before he had been supreme in
the administration of the Department
Justice. And he had been Senator,
also. But at this time he seemed al
most unknown, aud it was no wonder
that Landaulet Williams sickened of